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Ben Steer with his book, "The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast"
Alumnus publishes critically lauded book

Ben Steere, Director of Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University (Ph.D. '11), has published a book exploring the evolution of houses and households in the Southeast from the Woodland to the Historic Indian period (200 B.C. to 1800 A.D.). A reviewer states that “The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast” is certain to become an essential reference for anyone doing native archaeology in the Southeast. Another calls…

Photo of Faren Rachels from Rolling Stone magazine
Graduate realizes her country music dreams

2009 graduate Faren Rachels’ tattoo says it all: “[H]ad this dream from a tender age.” Faren, who played and sang in Athens bars before her talent took her around the country and the rooms got bigger, releases her first EP next month and Rolling Stone magazine takes notice. The magazine slots her at number one in a piece called “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know.” Faren was our student worker for two years and anytime you walked…

Asher Rosinger on riverbank
Several UGA anthropologists featured in Georgia magazine

Several faculty members and an alumnus were featured in UGA's fall issue of Georgia Magazine. Asher Rosinger, anthropology Ph.D.’15, MPH ’12 has put his Amazonian research on hold as he serves a two-year stint with the Center for Disease Control as one of only two medical anthropologists known as “disease detectives.” His most recent assignment was studying Zika in Puerto Rico. Rosinger will join Pennsylvania State University as…

Ben Steere
Steere gets award for archaeological excellence from Eastern Band of Cherokee

Ben Steere, alum of this department, now a faculty member at Western Carolina University, has won this recent award given by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.   Click here to read more about Steere's award.
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